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it's worth pointing out that apple was immune to this madness.
by dilap 9y ago
it's worth pointing out that apple was immune to this madness.
- zeusk 9y agoor is it? Look at Siri, Launchpad, touch bar, photos, iTunes.
- dilap 9y agothey've definitely let the desktop os be swayed by touch idioms (which you could reasonably argue was good or bad), but they didn't try to unify it all into a single os, like a windows and ubuntu.
- zeusk 9y agoI was merely pointing out that Apple was not immune to the paradigm; it isn't a bad thing but needs clear thought of the differences between the two platforms. Windows 8 might have been a step back but 10 is a job damn well done imo. My only concern in computing is that of vendor lock in, on the desk/laptop/living room - I'm using a self assembled PC, Surface pro and Xbox One X and the integration is outright amazing but on the mobile side I have an iPhone and an Apple watch which can work very well with each other but not so well with the other ecosystem. Windows is trying to better work with non Windows devices since Satya whereas on the Mac side, anything but iPhone is (and has been) crapshoot. Cloud storage and syncing services (Google Photos, Drive/Dropbox) are godsend but I feel I've gotten way off point now.
- rodgerd 9y ago> Windows 8 might have been a step back but 10 is a job damn well done imo. Yes, and my MiiX does a nice job of flipping in and out of tablet mode when I attach and detach the keyboard.
- JoshMnem 9y agoA problem with Apple is that you can't change it if something doesn't work for you. If I don't like GNOME or Unity, I can easily switch to xmonad, i3, awesome, openbox, fluxbox, xfce, lxde, kde, or many other options.
- tinus_hn 9y agoActually you can, just don’t use Apples OS.
- JoshMnem 9y agoI don't, partially for that reason.
- dilap 9y agoyes & no; via the accessability hooks 3rd party programs can change a surprisingly large amount, but obviously it's not as flexible as the complete control you have writing your own window manager. to me the big advantage of apple is there's just so many people running the exact same setup. ~ once a year new stuff comes out, some stuff breaks, it gets fixed. with linux you might be literally the only person running some particular combination of software; you seemed more on your own for fixing stuff. this was years ago, so maybe things have settled down a bit...
- majewsky 9y ago> once a year new stuff comes out, some stuff breaks, it gets fixed. Then why is there so much crying all over HN over how hilariously broken any new macOS release is?
- dilap 9y agolots of users + all-at-once release = lots of crying. but that also means everyone has the same setup, same problems, and stuff gets fixed quickly. that's my experience anyway. it'd be fun if someone tried a side-by-side daily-experience report of say ubuntu, windows, and macOS. our own personal perspectives are always colored by time and chance.
- usrusr 9y agoKind of logical: everybody tried desperately to win at tablet computing, except Apple who already did.